Hello Alex,I was trying to fix and import the XML code in this topic: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=181, at first it was not well formed but after solving that I still had problems, I found CN can't import XML like in the test case below. Please, before importing, add a space before </note>. It seems CN doesn't like leading whitespace, so without a space before </note> it will work ok, with a space it will be not responsive during import and after some time I had to terminate CN with Task Manager

I also had problems with the encoding, now I have two dozens of XML files on the desktop and and I have a bit lost myself so I'll ask directly. What Unicode encoding does CN want for importing and does it look for a BOM at the beginning of the file? It seemed to me it wants UTF-16 with a little endian BOM at the beginning but I would like to see a confirmation. Will other flavours like UTF-8 work?

I also found the minimal XML it will accept it's like in the example I wrote, it requires non empty values for date and time. I think the requirement for the encoding and an example of the minimal working XML note might be written somewhere on the forum or in the FAQ

Thanks for bringing this up folks. Well, what can I say: XML support in CintaNotes is now just enough to read back the files generated by export.The encoding used is a big-endian UCS-2 (basically UTF-16 without surrogate pairs).I will address this issue in (or maybe shortly after) Beta M10 via using a lightweight open-source XML parser instead of current dead simple regular expression-based implementation.

CintaNotes Developer wrote:Thanks for bringing this up folks. Well, what can I say: XML support in CintaNotes is now just enough to read back the files generated by export.The encoding used is a big-endian UCS-2 (basically UTF-16 without surrogate pairs).I will address this issue in (or maybe shortly after) Beta M10 via using a lightweight open-source XML parser instead of current dead simple regular expression-based implementation.

Take your time, but could you elaborate a little about why you prefered UCS-2 over UTF-8, for instance? In layman's terms, if you please...

Alex take care of this as and when you see fit, there's really no hurry. I think we have a safe way to import XML, we just need to create one note, export it and then replicate that structure X times with our data